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What does dextrorotatory mean?

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  1. (chemistry) That rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise.
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Levorotatory amino acids are absorbed extremely rapidly much more rapidly than are dextrorotatory amino acids.
Amino acids rotate light to the left, whereas sugars, called dextrorotatory, rotate it to the right.
The dextrorotatory isomer of zopiclone is displaced from its salt by means of a base such as sodium hydroxide.
Laevorotatory or dextrorotatory lactic acid has the same composition.
We wish to report that the dextrorotatory acids of the lipids of human tubercle bacilli, hitherto believed to be saturated acids, are unsaturated acids.
One was dextrorotatory when dissolved in aqueous solution, the other was levorotatory.

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